Re: [Gimp-user] Fix photo with uneven exposure

["Owen" <rcook pcug org au>]

> I hurriedly photographed the text in a greeting card and have uneven
> lighting
> and underexposure that I'd like to correct. Please see attachment, in
> which I've
> increased the brightness and contrast and then desaturated. This helps
> but it
> needs lots more!
>
> I've looked at tutorials on gradient contrast masks but I get lost
> part way
> through. Either I'm too much of a newbie to understand (highly
> probable) or
> maybe the tutorials are for older versions of GIMP. (I'm on 2.8.6 for
> Windows.)
>
> I am very grateful for any advice anyone would care to offer!!!



Use the Colors->Threshold tool

It maybe necessary to use the select tool and make various selections
and then apply the threshold tool to those selections

use a brush and paint white to clean up any odd spots


See http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/threshold.png as a quicky




-- 
Owen